Thanks for all who have responded to my question. Part of the answer is
in Solaris2 FAQ. However, one has to make sure to use "set" to set the desired
values in /etc/system. My problem was caused by default values (0 for all
semaphore and shared memory variables). The responses from
Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>
Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
Jos Speck <Jos.Speck@asml.nl>
Jeff Wasilko <jeffw@smoe.org>
"K.Ravi" <RAVKRISH.IN.ORACLE.COM.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>
Russell David <russell@mds.lmco.com>
Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>
Sydney Weinstein <syd@myxa.com>
Johnie Stafford <js@cctechnol.com>
Trevor Paquette <tpaquett@aec.ca>
Garry Robbins <Garry.Robbins@labatt.com>
are sumarized below:
1. set the values to your preferred settings
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=51200000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=512
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=150
set semsys:seminfo_semmap=350
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=350
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1000
set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=700
set semsys:seminfo_semume=100
2. The modules will not be loaded until referenced. You can
force it to load by "modload" command or put the following
in /etc/system and reboot.
forceload: sys/msgsys
forceload: sys/semsys
forceload: sys/shmsys
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